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WHAT DOGS MAY DO AS NEW YORK DETECTIVES; Eight Years' Experience in Europe Shows Use of Sheep Dogs in Tracking Criminals of Great Value in Large Cities Taught to Honor Only Those Wearing a Uniform, Ordinary Citzens Regarded With Suspicion by Canine Police.

WHEN it became known last week that the New York police were quietly investigating the practicability of adding a pack of dogs to the city's official force of thief-catchers and murder-trailers, "Big Bill" Devery -"the best Chief of Police New York ever had" -- said:

September 08, 1907

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